Posted on 08/28/2020 8:40:36 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant
As Republican Sen. Rand Paul left the White House on Thursday night, he was surrounded by a group of protesters and was escorted by police to a nearby hotel.
The scene was captured on video by The Washington Post. The footage shows officers using their patrol bicycles to create a barrier between Paul, his wife and the crowd as the protesters walked around them and shouted "no justice, no peace," "justice for Breonna Taylor" and "you need to respond."
Paul represents Kentucky, where police officers killed emergency medical technician Breonna Taylor, 26, in her Louisville home after they executed a no-knock warrant at the wrong apartment.
Activists across the country are frustrated with the handling of the investigation by Kentucky's attorney general, Daniel Cameron, who spoke earlier this week at the Republican National Convention. No charges have been filed against the officers in Louisville.
The overall protest was peaceful, according to what NPR reporters witnessed Thursday night outside the White House.
For months, demonstrators have congregated around the White House to protest racial injustice and police brutality following the deaths of Taylor and George Floyd, a Black man in Minneapolis, at the hands of white officers. On Friday, thousands gathered on the National Mall for a march calling for racial justice on the anniversary of the historic 1963 March on Washington led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
On Thursday night, the Post reported that police sprayed "chemical irritants" to push back the protesters surrounding Paul. At one point, an officer walking next to his bike pushed back a protester, and the situation escalated as the protester returned the push and sent the officer falling backward into Paul.
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NPR needs to be reformed or liquidated.
You don’t single people out, surround them, assault them or the police that are with them if you’re conducting a peaceful protest. F-ing media.
NPR is lying; was not a peaceful protest.
Taxpayers are funding these lies.
At the very least we should stop being forced to pay for National Propaganda Radio.
But when the GOP controlled both houses they didn’t do it.
“But when the GOP controlled both houses they didn’t do it.”
We’ll control them again in January, put it high on the “to-do” list! ;)
Some of the Bush League Republicans quit, others are going to be re-elected.
We need better Republicans.
NPR is unfit to give an opinion.
These propagandists are unbelievable.
The NPR author spells “Greenglass” in a funny way. Given it’s NPR, don’t we need to know if he’s related to Ethel Rosenberg?
Senator Paul said that he felt that without police protection he would have been killed. I can believe that. If Senator Paul had been killed, the ‘rat Governor of Kentucky would have appointed his replacement and BINGO a Senate seat is flipped.
No mention that Sen Paul was the victim *twice* of violent leftists. Once in the mass shooting of Republicans playing a baseball game by Leftist Hogeson and again when saluted by his deranged leftist neighbor.
F@ck NPR.
It’s time.....to crush these shitheads.
At t bg e very least , deploy our strongest LRADs and ADSs
Gloves OFF ! Let them have it .
Here’s an idea : load them on old ships, go out 200 miles , sink the ships
Why do the Republicans not call NPR to the carpet? They have long been in the tank for the rats, they need to be held accountable for their BS.
Here’s another peaceful protestor in DC - from Utah:
https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1299533616070815745
caption: “BLM inc. threatening to “rip the president out of the White House” They say they won’t wait until the next election. They’re openly calling for a revolution.”
person self-identifies as Don Sullivan from Utah
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Ron Johnson, Wisconsin
Jerry Moran, Kansas
Mike Lee, Utah
Rick Scott, Florida
Dan Sullivan, Alaska
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